For visitors wanting to know aboutHerefordand its lovely county, they can do no better than popping into the Hereford Museum and Art Gallery in Broad Street.

Housed in a spectacular Victorian Gothic building, it has been exhibiting artefacts and works of fine and decorative art connected with the local area since 1874. Although the exterior of the building has changed very little the museum and gallery are right up to date with their displays and technology.

The exhibitions begin in the foyer of the building with a regularly changing small display in the foyer case. Don't miss the Kenchester mosaic on your way upstairs and the changing art exhibitions on the stairwell walls. The museum is full of interesting local history with hands-on elements for all the family.

Around the walls of the museum is a timeline created by artist Harry Brockway. This sets out the major periods of history and depicts local events, places or museum objects. The exhibits themselves are then ordered according to both the historical era to which they belong and to one of four main themes - Herefordshire as a cultural county, a productive county, a natural county and a border county.

Exhibits include a hive of live bees, a two-headed calf, a two metre long fish, swords of every shape and size, elements of costume and textiles and much more besides.

Art Collection

The collection includes a significant number of works by the Herefordshire born artist John Scarlett Davis.

Current Exhibitions

The gallery showcases work of the members of the Herefordshire Art & Craft Society as well as holding regular temporary exhibitions of craftwork, paintings, photography, and prints. Go to the following link for current Exhibitions Web:Hereford Museum & Gallery/ information

Open

Wednesday to Saturday: 11:00 – 16:00 hours

Closed: Monday, Tuesday & Sunday

Admission Price

Free

Disabled Access

In 2005, the museum became the first in the United Kingdom to invest in the Talking Tactile Tablet (T3), developed at the UK's Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford together with a software company based in the USA.

Contact & Further Information

+44 (0)1432 260 692

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.